The chief minister said that kidnapping for ransom was a heinous crime and could not be tolerated. In the katcha area of Larkana, Sukkur, Khairpur up to Nawabshah, some bandits have established their hideouts and through the outlaws operating in the cities were engaged in kidnapping innocent people.
He said that operation would not be confined to the katcha area from Shaheed Benazirabad to Kashmore but it would also be conducted against facilitators of dacoits. The chief minister said that he was convening a high-level law and order meeting within next few days to finalize strategy for the proposed operation in consultation with IG Police and other concerned officers.
The chief minister has already directed IG police to get recover the kidnapped people from the clutches of the dacoits. "I would not tolerate emergence of dacoit factor in the province once again," he said.
Shah said that the over all law and order across Sindh was satisfactory but the newly emerged issue of kidnapping for ransom and street crime in Karachi have become new challenges. The Additional IG Karachi was working to crush street criminals while the operation against bandits in Northern and Central parts of Sindh was the need of hour.
The targeted operation launched against drug peddlers, terrorists and other outlaws is going on successfully in which police, Rangers and intelligence agencies are working hard, the chief minister said and added a similar operation was on the cards against dacoits in katcha areas.